Post-Apocalypse: Back to the Stone Age

~~Figleaf23~~ · 07-23-2012, 06:29 AM

I don't want to be a wet blanket, but I think your idea involves certain direct incompatibilities. A TL1 agrarian society will not, IMO, exist for long if you really want to retain "at least some modern day scientific knowledge."

For example, you mention muskets. They are TL3. Gunpower itself is very simple to make and it's TL2. The germ theory of disease is TL4. The problem you've got is that historical progress took a long time not because of a lack of knowledge, but because of a lack of even the concepts. If the concepts are there, the knowledge and techniques of early tech levels are not really that tough to build -- if you can survive until you do.

07-23-2012, 06:29 AM	#2
~~Figleaf23~~ Banned Join Date: Apr 2008	Re: Post-Apocalypse: Back to the Stone Age I don't want to be a wet blanket, but I think your idea involves certain direct incompatibilities. A TL1 agrarian society will not, IMO, exist for long if you really want to retain "at least some modern day scientific knowledge." For example, you mention muskets. They are TL3. Gunpower itself is very simple to make and it's TL2. The germ theory of disease is TL4. The problem you've got is that historical progress took a long time not because of a lack of knowledge, but because of a lack of even the concepts. If the concepts are there, the knowledge and techniques of early tech levels are not really that tough to build -- if you can survive until you do.